Category: Political Humor

Tags: Global, Warming, Drought, Disaster, Type, Climate, Change, Climate, Disaster, Quotation, Subject, Heat, Literature, Subject, Summer, Hot, Heat, Wave, Heat, Waves

Climate scientists explain the record-breaking heat this summer by saying the planet is experiencing strange weather from man-made global warming. Columnist George Will, whose level of expertise on the matter seems to originate from growing up in Illinois without air conditioning, has a different take: "How do we explain the heat? One word: Summer." Speaking on ABC's This Week, Will scoffed at the heat waves and drought that so far have killed 35 people, broken over 3,000 all-time heat records across the United States, and spurred some of the worst western wildfires in recorded history. "Come the winter, there will be a cold snap, lots of snow, and the same guys ... will be lecturing us," he said. "We're having some hot weather. Get over it." Will has argued that global warming has stopped, while data collected around the globe increasingly shows a warming planet Published on Jul 9, 2012 by slatester

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